Learning from Lincoln: What can 21st century educators learn from the leadership style of this 19th century president?
Designed to provide school leaders with success strategies for their daily work, participants of this session will have the opportunity to explore Lincoln's leadership practices through examples of his actions, prior to and during his presidency. The implications for leading in the 21st century will be delineated with participants analyzing a framework of 10 themes associated with Lincoln's example that have profound implications for school leadership and success. Registration fee includes a copy of the book Learning from Lincoln.
Presenter:Pam Robbins is an internationally known educational consultant. In addition to her work with school systems throughout the Unibed States, Canada, and overseas, she develops curriculum and provides training for state leadership academies and corporate clients. Formerly director of training for the California School Leadership Academy, Robbins has authored books on the principalship, block scheduling, emotional intelligence, and peer coaching. Robbins' educational background includes a bachelors degree in English from the University of California, a masters degree in education from California State University, Sacramento, and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral studies emphasized the areas of organizational development and change. Robbins is dedicated to providing meaningful, research-based professional growth opportunities that provide the necessary skills and motivation for all organizational members to accomplish their long- and short-range goals.
Implementing standards based grading takes more than just changing the report card. We invite you to join Char Williams, former Director of Curriculum for Jessamine County Schools, to learn about what needs to be in place in your policies, culture and your classrooms for successful implementation; learn tips on how to be ready to defend the practice with your teachers, students and parents; and learn how to help make it easier for your teachers to move towards these assessment practices. Char was an important part of the work in her home district and has great resources, tips, skills and strategies to share.
Presenter:Charlene "Char" Williams has served in education for 29 years in the Jessamine County Schools and has worked as the Director of Curriculum, elementary principal, Instructional Supervisor, curriculum resource teacher and classroom teacher. In the last several years she has been one of the presenters for the Teacher Content Network and now the ISLN for CKEC. Char now serves as Program Coordinator for KLA.
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Credit: 3 hours EILA
Cost: $75
iOS for Administrators
Learn how to use the iPAD for administrative tasks and as a tool for daily school operations and management. Discover features and functions, explore relevant applications and practice using it
for your own purposes in the areas of communication, collaboration and planning, presentation and
observation. Workshop content also focuses on using the iPAD, device features, native apps, third
party apps from iTunes, and the built-in accessibility features for addressing special needs in the
areas of vision and hearing disabilities. iPADs provided or bring your own.
Your Power-It's Not the CON of CONtent, but the CON of CONnection
The bottom line--People don’t believe the message until they believe the messenger. Let’s say you have a presentation to make. Everywhere I go, I see people giving all their attention to the almighty speech or PowerPoint presentation. Certainly, content is important, and absolutely must have our attention. Similar to a volleyball game, words just get the ball in the air. What puts it over the net is something more powerful than words—and that’s our connection to people. I call it the “90 percent factor.” Come learn how to ensure your factor is fully functioning when you have those important opportunities to communicate with your many audiences.
Designed to provide school leaders with success strategies for their daily work, participants of this session will have the opportunity to explore Lincoln's leadership practices through examples of his actions, prior to and during his presidency. The implications for leading in the 21st century will be delineated with participants analyzing a framework of 10 themes associated with Lincoln's example that have profound implications for school leadership and success. Registration fee includes a copy of the book Learning from Lincoln.
the principalship, block scheduling, emotional intelligence, and peer coaching. Robbins' educational background includes a bachelors degree in English from the University of California, a masters degree in education from California State University, Sacramento, and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral studies emphasized the areas of organizational development and change. Robbins is dedicated to providing meaningful, research-based professional growth opportunities that provide the necessary skills and motivation for all organizational members to accomplish their long- and short-range goals. 
Implementing standards based grading takes more than just changing the report card. We invite you to join Char Williams, former Director of Curriculum for Jessamine County Schools, to learn about what needs to be in place in your policies, culture and your classrooms for successful implementation; learn tips on how to be ready to defend the practice with your teachers, students and parents; and learn how to help make it easier for your teachers to move towards these assessment practices. Char was an important part of the work in her home district and has great resources, tips, skills and strategies to share.
The bottom line--People don’t believe the message until they believe the messenger. Let’s say you have a presentation to make. Everywhere I go, I see people giving all their attention to the almighty speech or PowerPoint presentation. Certainly, content is important, and absolutely must have our attention. Similar to a volleyball game, words just get the ball in the air. What puts it over the net is something more powerful than words—and that’s our connection to people. I call it the “90 percent factor.” Come learn how to ensure your factor is fully functioning when you have those important opportunities to communicate with your many audiences.